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- proper noun A male
given name ; also given to women.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ariah is a character likely to incur both empathy and exasperation.
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Ariah is deeply impacted by her brief marriage to Gilbert -- their lack of love for one another, their disastrous wedding night, his suicide.
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A taunt that echoed so distinctly in Ariah's skull, she halfway believed these pitying strangers could hear it.
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The group often assembles to back up other musical artists such as Ariah Firefly, Kiki Ebsen and Greg Jones.
Siskiyou Daily News Homepage RSS Inc. GateHouse Media 2010
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The reader knows things about Gilbert that Ariah does not, including a first-hand account of what drove him to commit suicide.
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I identified with Ariah in many ways, imagining what it would have been like to be married in the early 1950s, to a "nice" man who is, unknowingly homosexual.
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Gilbert doesn't understand himself, while Ariah can only feel guilt, shame, and humiliation as the bride of a suicide.
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Although Gil and Ariah technically fail to consummate the marriage, what the novel describes still allows for a potential pregnancy.
The Falls 2010
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This restricted vision echoes Ariah's own refusal to pay attention to current events--in fact, Ariah doesn't even know that Dirk is involved in the Love Canal suit until her sister-in-law claims that he is having an affair with Nina.
The Falls 2010
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Thus, where Gil and Dirk are both killed, more or less, by their refusal to go along with a socially acceptable "story," Ariah assumes that the end of her own story is a foregone conclusion.
The Falls 2010
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